VAT
pronunciation
How to pronounce VAT in British English:
UK [ˌvi: eɪ ˈti:]
How to pronounce VAT in American English:
US [ˈvi ˈe 'ti，væt]
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- Noun:
- a large open vessel for holding or storing liquids
Word Origin
- vat
- vat: [13] Vat comes from a prehistoric Germanic *fatam ‘vessel, barrel’, which also produced German fass, Dutch vat, Swedish fat, and Danish fad. It passed into Old English as fæt, whose direct descendant, fat, had largely died out by the end of the 19th century; vat represents a southwestern dialect form.
- vat (n.)
- c. 1200, large tub or cistern, "especially one for holding liquors in an immature state" [Century Dictionary], southern variant (see V) of Old English fæt "container, vat," from Proto-Germanic *fatan (cognates: Old Saxon, Old Norse fat, Old Frisian fet, Middle Dutch, Dutch vat, Old High German faz, German faß), from PIE root *ped- (2) "container" (cognates: Lithuanian puodas "pot").
Example
- 1. Portugal approved a vat increase of two percentage points .
- 2. Uncle pete fell in a whiskey vat last week .
- 3. Perhaps we are brains in a vat , or living in the matrix .
- 4. Last week , matthew had proposed to her here at this very vat , with me as a witness .
- 5. Moreover , the rise in vat will push up inflation .